Clare Branigan

Lecturer

I have been employed since 2001 by the
Management Information Systems (MIS) Subject Area in UCD. I completed my PhD in December 2009, and
since then I have been teaching in UCD and working on my research agenda.

Prior to joining UCD and pursuing my doctoral studies
(2001), I worked with an international business consulting company -VISION Consulting which employed over 400 people. One of
my roles there included Personal Business Manager for the
CEO Billy Glennon, which an initiative to fast track people by giving them
experience of working closely with Director level people.

Prior to that, I worked at MITRE (in Boston) an offshoot of
MIT for 9 years where I managed a number of systems engineering projects
primarily for the US Air Force.During
the course of this work, I published technical papers which were for
distribution both inside MITRE and for public distribution. MITRE is a research
Facility funded by the US Department Defence.MITRE employees 7,600 scientists, engineers and support specialists.

Prior to MITRE, I worked as a Software
Engineer at MIT Lincoln Lab, Boston, USA.(Educational Institution; Defence
& Space industry)

My work involved designing,
building and testing software to acquire and communicate with the MILSTAR
satellite (using the C programming language).>>

Technical Publication

Research Interests

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·My current
research area is in the field of behavioural decision-making
which focuses on the role of emotions and the unconscious in decision making. I
am currently working on research papers based on data from my PhD and further
studies.

The morphology of a Bubble Market - Evidence from the Dublin House Auction Market.

The role of culture and behavioural
biases for the Irish Property Purchaser. This paper focuses
on Innovation and
Culture & the Irish Psyche. It
forges a link between the Irish obsession with property ownership and the deep
psychological underpinning in Irish History from our colonial past.

The Role of
the Dublin Residential Auction Market in Fueling the Property Bubble.